[?] Harry Luke Takes a

Useful Honour, When [?]ur Bags Are Lost [?] Harry Luke Takes a [?]st Look at the [?]Pacific

Until I saw Sir Harry Luke, ner Governor of Fiji, recovering lost luggage, within minutes of sailing of the liner for London March 18, and getting it put ird as the gangways came down, ways had regarded a KCMG as more ornament than practical ow I should like one of my own, the emergencies of travel, ir Harry arrived in Sydney by on March 15, from Polynesia, left his main baggage with air 's officials, to be placed in his in on the ship at Pyrmont, and t off for a weekend with old nds in the country.

Tien he went aboard on the i. within sixty minutes of Ing-time, his luggage was sing. Urgent inquiries availed ling. No one connected with liner had seen the bags. No seemed to care much —they said vas too late to do anything, ir Harry’s friends went furiously i action. They traced the 'age finally into a Qantas truck id no one knew where the truck ir Harry sat forlornly on a ling-bank in the wharf shed. He ight he would stay on in Sydney, se his bags, and try to connect i the liner in Melbourne, t the last moment, the Qantas :k appeared, and a very hot and lered man brought the bags to Luke party.

But the liner’s baggage-master was all gloom and pessimism. It was too late, he said. Customs (or someone) would hang, draw and quarter him if he put the bags aboard without official sanction.

One of the passenger’s friends took the matter up with vigour.

“Look”, he said. “This is Sir Harry Luke, KCMG. He was met at Mascot by an official from the Premier’s Department, and that official made the arrangements with stt S irVaV Ug bf g penaS th^arrangements not CaiTy ° Ut the arrangements.

The KCMG did it. The baggagemaster perceptibly wilted. “All right, well put your bags aboard,

sir”, he said. “But Gawd knows what those Customs blokes will do about it.” . , . , , b rawn y shouldered headed for the gang in' Farewells were hurriedly said.

“Sorry to leave so abruptly”, said the former Governor. “But I’m n .ot going to let that lad out of my sight.”

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S ?uth Pacific - He carried away with him a portfolio of notes, for the book on the South Pacific Terri tories which he is to write for

Oxford University Press.-

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Sir Harry Luke, KCMG